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9780929587851

We're in the Money Depression America and It's Films

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  • ISBN13:

    9780929587851

  • ISBN10:

    0929587855

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-03-01
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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Summary

How Hollywood helped prop up the nation's fundamental institutions during the Great Depression.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi(8)
A Note on the Movie Industry and the Depression xix
PART ONE 1930-1933 3(66)
1 The Gangsters
3(15)
2 The Shyster and the City
18(12)
3 Some Anarcho-Nihilist Laff Riots
30(19)
4 Sex and Personal Relations: Women of the Streets, Women of the World
49(13)
5 A Musical Interlude
62(7)
PART TWO 1933-1939 69(106)
6 Back to the Earth: King Kong and King Vidor
69(14)
7 The G-Man and the Cowboy
83(9)
8 Warner Brothers Presents Social Consciousness
92(18)
9 The Mob and the Search for Authority, 1933-1937
110(22)
10 Frank Capra and Screwball Comedy, 1931-1941
132(17)
11 A Solution to Environment: The Juvenile Delinquent
149(18)
12 Conclusions
167(8)
Notes 175(12)
Bibliography 187(8)
Index 195

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